Yen bai

(Cinet) – Within the days( from21 – 25/9), the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism cooperated with the People’s Committee of Yen Bai City and the provincial group of the Trade Union of Yen Bai to hold the the Week of Culture - Sports. This is a practical activity of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Province, to welcome the celebration of 50 days of Uncle Ho visiting Yen Bai (25/9/1958 – 25/9/2008). Accordingly, the Week of Culture-Sports will include the following contents: the mobilizing ceremony of the marathon prize –answering the campaign “ the entire people train sports to the example of Great Uncle Ho”; Opening the exhibition” Uncle Ho” – a great personality ”; Opening the badminton prize at the provincial stadium ; holding camping “the Youth follow the teaching of Uncle Ho”; holding thurification ceremonies at historic relics; meetings to celebrate 50 years of Uncle Ho … [Read more...] about The Department of CST of Yen Bai: Holding the Week of Culture – Sports – Vietnam

(Cinet)- A ceremony to launch the “Return to the Roots” tourism programme 2011 was held in Nghia Lo, Yen Bai province on February 26. This is a tourism cooperative programme between the northern provinces of Yen Bai, Phu Tho and Lao Cai. At the opening ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan praised the three provinces’ efforts in promoting tourism and said their cooperation provides a good example for others to follow. He said he hopes the programme will create more tourism products and give all three provinces a facelift for developing tourism. Over the six years of the programme, Phu Tho, Yen Bai and Lao Cai provinces have invested thousands of billions of VND in tourism infrastructure. With nearly 1,000 accommodation facilities, including at least one four – star hotels, more than 500 hotels and 260 restaurants, the three provinces have met the increasing demands of both domestic and foreign tourists, even in the high season. Since the … [Read more...] about Yen Bai launches tourism festival

(Cinet)- More than 1,000 artists and local people performed "xoe" dances to kick off the Muong Lo Culture, Sports and Tourism Week in Yen Bai Province's Nghia Lo Town on October 16. The festival will continue with a range of activities, including an incense-offering ritual at the President Ho Chi Minh Memorial Complex, sports competition, buffalo fighting, and heritage status being given to three banyan trees in the area that are more than 300 years old. Xoe is a typical dance of the Thai ethnic minority groups in the north-west. Men and women hold hands to form a circle and dance to the rhythms played on instruments such as gourd lutes, drums, two-chord fiddles, gongs and cymbals. A trade and food fair, offering multiple local specialities such as dried food, seven-coloured stick rice and smoked pork, will be held on the sidelines of the festival.The special week aims to promote solidarity and cultural exchange among ethnic minority groups in the region, as well as … [Read more...] about Muong Lo Culture, Sports and Tourism Week in Yen Bai

(Cinet) – Document No.2305/BVHTTDL-DSVH of the MOCST was sent to Yen Bai Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism on restoring some items of Hac Y site. Accordingly, the Ministry gives some opinions as follows: In 2011, through national target program on culture, the MOCST supported for the relic site with expense of VND 500 million. Therefore, the restoring period should comply with original items. Besides, it is necessary to make a fence around the site to protect the relic site. The Ministry required that Yen Bai Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism arrange a source of budget of the province and mobilize other sources to restore and repair the site. Yen Bai Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism have to build Document to make some economic reports to submit to the Ministry for an approval. … [Read more...] about Yen Bai: Restoring some items of Hac Y site

More than 100 photos and documents are on display at an exhibition entitled “Yen Bai Follows Uncle Ho’s Sayings”, which opened in the Northern Mountain Province of Yen Bai on September 21st. The exhibition is divided into two parts, the first introducing the life and career of President Ho Chi Minh, and the second exhibiting photos on 50 years of implementing Uncle Ho’s sayings in Yen Bai Province. Yen Bai Province, where he met with the party committee, authorities and the people of the province. He visited the processing areas of an apatite mine and Lao Cai’s thermo-electric power plant. He asked the party committee, authorities and ethnic minorities to strengthen solidarity, emulate production, work hard in their studies, improve intellectual capacity, wipe out backward customs and build the prosperous homeland. Lao Cai Province have promoted patriotic emulation movements that study and follow Uncle Ho’s example. Lao Cai has promoted activities … [Read more...] about Activities to Mark Uncle Ho’s Visit to Yen Bai and Lao Cai

(Cinet) – The MOCST has had a Document No.2333/BVHTTDL-DSVH sending ot Yen Bai Provincial People’s Committee aiming at giving some opinions for the restoring Project of tomb Nguyen Thai Hoc in Yen Bai. Accordingly, the MOCST has given some opinions as follows:  Nguyen Thai Hoc tomb in Yen Bai keeps many historical and cultural values, ranking a national historical relic at a national level since 1990. Therefore, the Project aims at honouring and educating revolutionary tradition for the youth nowadays and future. From that, the MOCST suggested that Yen Bai Provicial People’s Committee should establish the Project. However, the Project expects to promote a permanent efficiency and ensure a high quality complying with original site and investing expense. … [Read more...] about Some opinions for the restoring project of Tomb Nguyen Thai Hoc in Yen Bai

50 photos by 12 photographers, including 5 from ethnic minority groups, are on display at an exhibition of fine arts to mark the 17th Yen Bai provincial party congress which opened on October 21st. The exhibition about ethnic minority groups in the northwestern province of Yen Bai is being held by the Danish Foundation for Regional and Vietnamese Ethnic Cultural Support in coordination with the Yen Bai provincial Association of Literature and Arts. Photos depict daily life of people from different minority groups in the province and close feelings of artists with the homeland. The exhibition will run through October 27th.   Source: CPV     … [Read more...] about Exhibition on fine arts to mark the Yen Bai provincial party congress

Nong Van Tinh, a Dao ethnic minority person, in Sat Ngot village, Van Yen District, has recently presented more than 60 antiques to the Yen Bai Provincial Museum.The donations included ploughshares, axes, shovels, and hoes, all made of copper and iron; swords, daggers, and most remarkably a copper drum first found in Yen Bai Province.According to Tinh, he and other farmers found the antiques quite by accident along the right bank of the Red River after storm No. 4 in August 2008. Most of the antiques date back 2500 to 2800 years ago, and belonged to the Dong Son Cultural Age. Amazingly preserved, several antiques were fashioned about 4500 years ago. Source: QDND Photo for illustration. Source: nld.com.vn … [Read more...] about Yen Bai Museum receives 60 antiques

The 6th national sports festival for ethnic minorities will be opened in the mountainous northern province of Yen Bai and the coastal central province of Ninh Thuan, announced the General Sports Department in Hanoi on July 14. A representative from the dpartment, Le Anh Tho said the tournament aims to develop the movement of and physical training to improve people’s health and spiritual life. The athletes, who are all ethnic minority people, will compete in men’s football, men and women’s volleyball, cross-country running, stick pushing, tug-of-war, crossbow shooting. The event in Yen Bai will include Con throwing, a traditional game of the Tay and Nung groups, while stilt walking will be added to contests held in Ninh Thuan province. A total of 16 teams and 715 athletes have so far registered to join the games, which is scheduled to take place from July 21-26 in Ninh Thuan and from September 18-23 in Yen Bai. The festival’s organising board is preparing … [Read more...] about Ethnic minority sports festival to open in Yen Bai, Ninh Thuan